Director

E J-yong

Directing

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Directed movies: 8Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 123661

IMDb ID: nm0497489

Known for: Directing

Born: September 5, 1965

Age: 60

Place of birth: Daejeon, South Korea

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1990 - 2018

Years active: 29

Average TMDB rating: 6.4

Wikidata: Q12612485

Also known as

이재용 • Jaeyong Lee • Je-yong Lee • Lee Jae-yong • 李在容 • E J-yong

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Director (8)Writer (2)

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Biography

E J-yong (Korean: 이재용; born September 5, 1966) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His feature films include An Affair (1998), Untold Scandal (2003), Dasepo Naughty Girls (2006), and Actresses (2009). E J-yong (his preferred stylized, phonetic spelling; more conventionally romanized as Lee Jae-yong) was born in Daejeon, South Chungcheong Province in 1966. He studied Turkish at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. After graduating from university, he went backpacking around the world in the late 1980s and fell in love with cinema. E said, "I saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit in Germany, Au revoir les enfants in London, and Barry Lyndon and Pelle the Conqueror in Australia. After I came home, I had to choose a job and movies were the only thing I was interested in. I couldn't imagine wearing a suit and working in a bank."[1] E entered the Korean Academy of Film Arts in 1990 and studied filmmaking.